New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

Here’s a prediction based on high school-level evolutionary biology: Before our Brood X cicadas sing again, a new coronavirus will threaten another global pandemic. Natural selection, a major force of ...

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When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 has accomplished something that school boards and other policy makers often refuse to do. It has given us a vivid, real-time lesson in how biological evolution works, ...

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For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

Though Charles Darwin is most famous for his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and his theory of natural selection, the naturalist was, at heart, a botanist. Photo illustration by Smithsonian.com / Photos ...